Thursday, October 01, 2009
urgh.
still harbouring and recaping yesterday's incident.
30 Sep 09 was trying and emotional for me.
Started badly and ended... well the same...
i must say its my stupid, blur, unfortunate day.
ive been feeling low...
ferstly coz of my sis critisisms
secondly of my low finance status-struggle to keep up with the good life.
thirdly a guy whom i tink i fell for and maybe one-way highway...
and so i decided to see whats on wiki...
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Platonic love, in its modern popular sense, is a non-sexual
affectionate relationship.
[1] A simple example of Platonic relationships is a deep, non-sexual friendship, not subject to gender pairings and not excluding close relatives.
At the same time, this interpretation is a misunderstanding of the nature of the
Platonic ideal of
love which from its origin was that of a
chaste but
passionate love, based not on lack of erotic interest but on spiritual transmutation of the sex force, opening up vast expanses of subtler enjoyments than sex.
In its original Platonic form, this love was meant to bring the lovers closer to wisdom and the Platonic Form of Beauty. It is described in depth in
Plato's
Phaedrus and
Symposium, where the examples given refer exclusively to the love between a man and a boy. In the Phaedrus, it is said to be a form of divine madness that is a gift from the gods, and that its proper expression is rewarded by the gods in the afterlife; in the Symposium, the method by which love takes one to the form of beauty and wisdom is detailed.
- extraction from wiki.
Posted by ZayS at 4:12 PM